Jessica Tandy

Personal Info

Birthday

June 7, 1909

Day of Death

1994-09-11

(85 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England

Also Known As

Jessica Alice Tandy

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Jessica Tandy

Biography

Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was an English-American stage and film actress. She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear.

She also worked in British films. Following the end of her marriage to Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen.

Known For

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

The F.B.I.

Omnibus

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Goodyear Television Playhouse

Dream On

Judd for the Defense

Filmography

2006
A Streetcar on Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
as Self (archive footage)
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
as Self
1994
Nobody's Fool
as Beryl Peoples
Camilla
as Camilla Cara
1993
To Dance with the White Dog
as Cora Peek
1992
Used People
as Freida
1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
as Ninny Threadgoode
The Story Lady
as Grace McQueen
1990
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1989
Driving Miss Daisy
as Daisy Werthan
1988
Cocoon: The Return
as Alma Finley
The House on Carroll Street
as Miss Venable
1987
*batteries not included
as Faye Riley
Foxfire
as Annie Nations
1985
Cocoon
as Alma Finley
1984
The Bostonians
as Miss Birdseye
1982
Best Friends
as Eleanor McCullen
Still of the Night
as Grace Rice
The World According to Garp
as Mrs. Fields
1981
Honky Tonk Freeway
as Carol
The Gin Game
as Fonsia Dorsey
1974
Butley
as Edna Shaft
1963
The Birds
as Lydia Brenner
1962
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
as Mrs. Helen Adams
1959
The Moon and Sixpence
as Blanche Stroeve
1958
The Christmas Tree
as Mrs. Martin
The Light in the Forest
as Myra Butler
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
1950
September Affair
as Catherine Lawrence
1948
A Woman's Vengeance
as Janet Spence
1947
Forever Amber
as Nan Britton
1946
The Green Years
as Kate Leckie
Dragonwyck
as Peggy O'Malley
1945
The Valley of Decision
as Louise Kane
1944
Blonde Fever
as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
The Seventh Cross
as Liesel Roeder
1938
Murder in the Family
as Ann Osborne
1932
Indiscretions of Eve
as Penelope, the Maid